Message-Id: <199706041625.JAA17546@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 09:29:35 +0100 From: iminteg <mailto:iminteg@SIRIUS.COM> Subject: Re: database construction To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
I' ve got to repeat the question - why are you all reinventing the wheel? With several image centric databases which can communicate with the powerhouses either through web interfaces or protocol, why try to recreate it in something like oracle? This is a serious question. What are you gaining when Canto's Cummullus or DAS's AXSPRO can easily read your image files tags and will continue to maintain that ability with changing image file formats. They aren't very expensive, relative to Oracle and the other big guys. I would even see them as a utility. Got to admit I use Kodak's defunct Shoebox as a utility to load image and file information into FMP databases which are smaller then being discussed here and the image is auxillary.Trudy Levy Image Integration 7 Third Ave San Francisco,CA 94118 415 750 1274 mailto:ImInteg@sirius.com Images are information - Manage them.